Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

J O Urmson, Paul Lettinck

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• Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the ori... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 2.10-14

Simplicius

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• Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred directi... Lees meer

Priscian: Answers to King Khosroes of Persia

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• Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the Christian Emperor Justinian... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.1-8

Philoponus

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• Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 6

David Konstan

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• Book Six of Aristotle's Physics , which concerns the continuum, shows Aristotle at his best. It contains his attack on atomism which forced subsequent... Lees meer

Philoponus

Philoponus

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• In On The Soul 2.1-6, Aristotle differs from Plato in his account of the soul, by tying it to the body. The soul is the life-manifesting capacities th... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 3.1-7

Simplicius

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• The subject of Aristotle's On the Heavens , Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens. Book 3, in c... Lees meer

Ammonius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 10-14

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• This is the final part of the translation in this series of Ammonius' commentary on Aristotle "On Interpretation." This is the only commentary written... Lees meer

Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 5-8

Themistius

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• Themistius' treatment of Books 5-8 of Aristotle's Physics shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristot... Lees meer

Porphyry

Porphyry

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• Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. Wh... Lees meer

Simplicius

Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan

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• '[Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the wil... Lees meer

Philoponus

Philoponus

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• This is one of the most interesting of all post-Aristotelian Greek philosophical texts, written at a crucial moment in the defeat of paganism by Chris... Lees meer

Themistius

Robert B Todd

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• Themistius ran his philosophical school in Constantinople in the middle of the fourth century A.D. His paraphrases of Aristotle's writings are unlike ... Lees meer

Themistius

Themistius

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• Physics Book 4 is one of Aristotle's most interesting works, discussing place, time and vacuum. Themistius was a fourth-century AD orator and essayist... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9

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• Simplicius' greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher start... Lees meer

'Philoponus': On Aristotle on the Soul 3.1-8

W Charlton

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• In On the Soul 3.1-8, Aristotle first discusses the functions common to all five senses, such as self-awareness, and then moves on to Imagination and ... Lees meer

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3

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• Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner and a respondent. Alexander takes the... Lees meer

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.14-22

Ian Mueller

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• The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is a very important text, being the main ancient commentary with chap... Lees meer

'Philoponus'

W Charlton

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• In On the Soul 3.1-8, Aristotle first discusses the functions common to all five senses, such as self-awareness, and then moves on to Imagination and ... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle on Coming-To-Be and Perishing 1.1-5

C J F Williams

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• The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth... Lees meer

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14

J O Urmson

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• This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the ch... Lees meer

Proclus: On Plato Cratylus

Proclus

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• Proclus' commentary on Plato's Cratylus is the only ancient commentary on this work to have survived, and is illuminating in two particular respects. ... Lees meer

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14

Philoponus

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• Philoponus' commentary on the last part of Aristotle's Physics Book 4 does not offer major alternatives to Aristotle's science, as did his commentary ... Lees meer

Proclus: On Providence

Proclus

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• 'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like t... Lees meer